Three
artists and three Asian sensibilities bring the fundamentally
different cultures of East and West together
in works that pay
homage to ink on stone in the University of Virginia Art Museum
exhibition, “Ink/Stone: The Art of Stephen Addiss, Mark
Fletcher, Wonsook Kim.”

Potter
Mark Fletcher draws on his training at the kiln site of Mashiko
in Japan in operating Turtle
Hill Pottery in Gainesville,
Fla. His pots and clay sculptures reveal paintings on their
surfaces, synthesizing painting and pottery into a single art.

Stephen
Addiss, on the other hand, makes clay pots and Zen-style paintings
independent of each other but united in spirit. A
scholar of Japanese art and a professor at the University
of Richmond,
Addiss draws on the interconnection of Zen and literati culture,
tea and the tea ceremony.

Korean
by birth, Wonsook Kim uses acrylic and oil to create “ink” paintings.
Her images – a woman, an abandoned boat – are
meticulously composed on her large canvases and find their
sources in the literati.

All
three artists are interested in painting on nontraditional supports,
including stone
or stone-like surfaces.

These
large oil paintings, smaller ink paintings, large and small stoneware,
porcelain and clay
sculptures, and
painted
pots are
unified by the artists’s engagement with Asian
art and their commitment to the American art scene.

The
exhibition was organized by Sandy Kita, assistant professor of
Japanese art history at the University
of Maryland and
co-curator of the exhibition “The Moon Has
No Home” Japanese Color
Woodblock Prints from the Collection of the University
of Virginia Art Museum.

The
artists will informally discuss their work on Friday, Jan. 23,
at 5 p.m.

The
exhibition is supported by funds from the Arts$ program and the
Office of Student Life.

The
museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m.

For
details about the exhibition or lecture, call the University
of Virginia
Art Museum
at (434)
924-3592 or visit the Web
site: http://www.virginia.edu/artmuseum.

Images
for the exhibit are available by contacting Katherine Thompson
Jackson at (434) 924-3629 or ktj@virginia.edu.

Contact:
Jane Ford, (434) 924-4298

FOR
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Contact the Office
of University Relations at (434) 924-7116. Television reporters
should contact the TV News Office at (434) 924-7550.